Jump to content

Portal:Roads

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

PortalsTechnologyTransportRoads

The World Roads Portal

The St. Gotthard Pass road with hairpin turns in the Swiss Alps

A road is a thoroughfare for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians. Unlike streets, whose primary function is to serve as public spaces, the main function of roads is transportation.

There are many types of roads, including parkways, avenues, controlled-access highways (freeways, motorways, and expressways), tollways, interstates, highways, thoroughfares, and local roads.

The primary features of roads include lanes, sidewalks (pavement), roadways (carriageways), medians, shoulders, verges, bike paths (cycle paths), and shared-use paths. (Full article...)

Selected article

M54 Motorway
The M54 is a 23-mile (37 km) east-west motorway in the English counties of Shropshire and Staffordshire. It is also referred to as the Telford Motorway, after the road's primary westbound destination, the new town of Telford. The motorway cost £65 million to construct, and is two-lane dual carriageway for the majority of its length, with sections of three-lane.

The M54 spur connects the M6 motorway near Essington, Staffordshire with the A5 trunk road at Wellington, Shropshire. The motorway forms part of the strategic route to North Wales, roughly following the path of the Roman Watling Street and the A5 north-westwards, towards the port of Holyhead. It is the only motorway in Shropshire, and forms a vital part of the county's road network.

The following are images from various road-related articles on Wikipedia.

Selected image

{{{caption}}}

Road interchange of Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway and Parkdale Avenue at the Ottawa River in Ottawa, as seen during a hot air balloon ride
Credit: Flickr user Shanta

Did you know

... that the Khardungla Pass is the highest motorable road in the world?
...that Saskatchewan Highway 58 travels the Missouri Coteau to an important shore bird site on Canada's second largest saline lake?

...that road bicycle racer Gerald Ciolek became the youngest ever German National Cycling Champion, aged just 18 in 2005?

WikiProjects

Selected panorama

{{{caption}}}

View over the cirque of Pougnadoire and Saint-Chély-du-Tarn village, in the Tarn Gorges, from the cirque of Saint-Chély. This picture features the road D 907bis which goes alongside the Tarn river all along the gorges.
Credit: (Benh)

Topics

Related portals

Things to do

This list is transcluded from the tasks page, to edit this section click here.


Here are some tasks you can do for WikiProject Highways:

  • Improve: You may always improve the quality of road articles by adding more information and references to enhance the overall readers' experience. Improvements to GA and FA quality is much appreciated! Also, nominations for Selected article and Selected picture are always needed, as with Did you know and News. Add to the Portal
  • Photo request: Just about all of them! Any pictures of Highways regions, road surface or infrastruture varieties or Highways would be useful. In particular we need Highways region maps that can be licensed for Wikipedia.
vieweditdiscusshistorywatch

Subcategories

The following entries are categories relating to road transport:
Category puzzle
Category puzzle
Select [►] to view subcategories

Associated Wikimedia

The following Wikimedia Foundation sister projects provide more on this subject:

Sources

Discover Wikipedia using portals

Purge server cache